The president of the Generalitat assures that some of the people referred to in the summary are “entrepreneurs who have absolute links with the business fabric of the Community”
The President of the GeneralitatXimo Puig, has considered, when asked about the latest revelations in the Azud case, that “meeting with a businessman is not a symbol of corruption” but “rather the opposite”: “It is to attend to what are the normal relations between the institution and the companies“.
In this sense, the also general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE, a party implicated in that case for an alleged bribery plot during the electoral campaigns of 2007 and 2008, added that some of the people referred to in the summary of the case are ” businessmen who have absolute links with the business fabric of the Valencian Community”.
This was stated in statements to the media after holding a working meeting on measures to promote regional public transport that he held this Thursday at the Colón metro station with the Minister of Territorial Policy, Public Works and MobilityRebeca Torro.
“There is nothing that proves that there has been any diversion, neither of power nor of money,” he stated. Ximo Puig, and has lamented that “the right tries to generate noise because its only objective is to say that we are all the same, and we are not all the same”.
Likewise, the head of the Consell has assured that “none of these people are active in the PSPV”, has reiterated that “if someone did something wrong, if some type of irregular situation occurred, obviously justice will act” and has assured that the autonomous government “will always support the action of justice”.
“We have always taken the appropriate measures; some have been especially painful, and people who at some point could be prosecuted have been removed, beyond the presumption of innocence,” said Ximo Puig.
In this way, He has stressed that “the only person” with an institutional position that is “clearly indicated” is the second vice president of Les Corts, Jorge Bellverof the PP, and added that “even though some are permanently committed to dirtying the image of the Botànic, in 2015 the stage of corruption in the Valencian Community ended”.
Likewise, he has referred to the fact that the investigation focuses on the electoral campaigns of 2007 and 2008, when “there was a different legislation on the legislation of the parties.”
Asked if he considers that the “boss” referred to in some of the conversations included in the summary may be someone who is or has been in the Administration since 2015, he replied: “Of course not.”
“I don’t know what they mean,” said the head of the Conselland has stressed that, since that year, “it has acted with total firmness” whenever a case has been known “that could be a reason for corruption, or even without reaching political corruption, in the face of any non-positive attitude”.
In his opinion, the difference is that “the PP is still attached to the corruption of so many years” and those who represent it today “are linked to that historical heritage”, for which reason it has considered that the Community “He doesn’t deserve to go back to that paradigm.”
“The important thing is to continue acting in defense of the general interest and if any person, regardless of party, commits any irregularity, they must be removed immediately and trust in the action of justice and the rule of law, which is what what we are doing”, he concluded.